City of Laredo, Texas Library Advisory Committee, 27 Feb 2019

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02-27-19 Public Library Advisory Committee

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Okay good evening, everyone thanks for coming or not bring me no. This was given up this meeting today, but the city of Laredo Public Library at vice-versa, needs to be held on Wednesday February 27 2019 at the Joey Theatre in the Rio public library over here, as we shift started, 5:00 p.m. you can expect the final one for the following items of business or discussion and possible action.

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So at this time I will call the meeting to order its 501, and if we could please step aside, please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice, occur.

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Thank you, I was.

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A scientist present many.

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Pies Jackson, Robert, repeat absent.

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Catalina's present will say: I'm sorry, Rosa Maria see the yeah no presence.

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Urbano here.

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Romo presents will have a quorum.

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No we watch a moment.

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Which the communications and announcements are.

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This will over to item number six for communications and announcements. First,.

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Of all introduction of mr. provided Romo, who is here representing mr. Julio Martinez district.

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Both look forward to.

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Then we're gonna have to table item B, because MIT spice map is not here. But yes, we'd like to recognize in this part of service.

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To and then we have a new one and.

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Then has not taken the LP, it is, but in our areas so.

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For I am me why.

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Are we table because we're also recognizing her because she represented Charlie coming in and she's, not here, but she's going to continue now representing his.

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Ok so, but she won't get cake mix.

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You want to do.

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And then what we'll get everybody.

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And now, if you've been with us since 2012 just so six years- and this is in recognition of your outstanding and dedicated service to the citizens of Arabia, the rate of public libraries, that it's your views and determination and making our lobby one of the best in Texas.

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Congratulations, we're gonna miss you, but you know that you know this come forward.

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The agenda so we'll jump backwards to item number five limits and you have.

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A package to the minutes of our last meeting of January 30th, okay.

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Will you all be taken a couple of minutes, true with rudy' witness see we have any Corrections or.

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Enjoy your emotional Putin hint of January was early 2019.

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I have one comment, also I, don't know if it's a type forest immediately generate or it's beyond is the definitely just one. Yes,.

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In this person said me and me know and meet you yeah I told.

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A medium, so it will call it me me.

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It's been very.

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You're a second.

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And all those in favor suppose.

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So now we're down to the next item, which is item for discussion and possible actions.

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Discussion and possible actions: the Texas State Library, Archives, Commission, 2018, Texas, public school public library, annual report and that.

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Is also the full reporting system, it still says draft because we haven't submitted it yet, but those are all the statistics and I have ever here. Food usually works on the statistics in case you have any any questions regarding it and put your information there on every year. We have to submit this over.

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To state my group.

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So that we can get accreditation full and we've had accreditation for years, we always meet the standards group, we're 60,000.

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So this is think you just want this main room.

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No, it's often library guesswork.

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What it is it, so you ask them it of every area.

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And don't think it's yes.

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And that one of that's another part of the report- and it's just basically the information address- will never in person in contact. Yes,.

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What we've seen pretty much every year and just you, if you do amended you, add the changes and uppers, though.

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They're different- and it has just a few- highlights: okay, she wanted to point.

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And pretty much take the same in and I'm very confident, we'll get accreditation that you already can.

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I'm sure so as far as expenditures spending miss Mustaine, but one of the main differences is that we did as far as finding physical materials but up as far as my cave materials. So it kind of balanced.

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A definite increase in overall erasers, which is hard acquire. We want it, moved in that direction as far as their collection goes and we did become members of a consortium. What page are you? This is going to be down page 9, section 6.

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That was like instant, so the I remember that, sadly into and so being part of that I'm not going to be have access to our own materials that we purchase your cloud library, but also our move. Now it's up to a hundred in something 30,000.

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Everybody like twelve or thirteen other libraries that we can share. So, if you're looking for a book it electronic here and we don't have it but another library has it you, you know you will see that your borrowing it from another library it'll seem like it's a seamless.

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Credit patron so if they want to bring the newest book by Stephen King, which is elevation in case Affairs, interesting okay- and we don't have a copy, because ours is checked out, if there's another, the patron doesn't see that it's coming from somewhere else like bear county or allen public when they're over there likely covered. So the really neat thing about that is, it did increase our overall.

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Have a humungous electronic collection just through cloud librarians, eighty-four thousand units, LMS, first ebooks, goats and then 12,000 units for audiobooks and just in cloud library, but other totals you see on page 11 in item 6.7. Ematic 6.8 also include the holdings that we have in our other products, which would be overdrive, Zinio, which is our magazines, our be digital. Witches are audiobooks and down at the bottom, really excited for us within six phone and video is actually essentially have you who so I don't know.

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If you all have had an opportunity to check out our.

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But it's a freaking ethics alternative. It's really mean we've seen a good response to it. We've primarily got it to have those streaming video abilities and you can use it either through your phone app and now I think it connects to Roku and Apple TV directly, so people can establish.

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It's only videos TV, no.

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Audiobooks yeah la it's very.

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Yeah bring good things SSS.

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See the other thing I'd like to point out.

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In section 7 on page 13, you can see our weapons transactions, that's about on the average they're a tiny decrease, but that's the industry. Whiterun 7.2 is the number of visits we calculated that with our door count, and that is system-wide. That's.

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And that's like that are.

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You not yeah I'm, very happy.

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In our doors yeah, we are.

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Last thing I wanted to point out is going to be on page 14, our circulation circulation statistics. You all see them every month, but this kind of gives you an idea of that aggregate. What it looks like at the end of 4s7, you see, our children's circulation is pretty much off the charts and that's a whole lot higher than last year and I.

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Think part of it is that, even though we've done a lot of weeding just keeping an inflow of new materials, keeps people coming back to browse the collection and I think it's more accessible now the way things would you take out some of the outdated stuff and adding new things. You're gonna see whistles, so we saw that for both our children's physical materials and the adult kids bible.

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Question one package: 7.2 library,.

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Night cream in houses right now, there's.

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The door this dude walking.

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Into accounting.

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You have a very, very high pitch to beat when you do that.

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Of course is that in.

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Play well they're.

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Either members.

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And they're registered or ee because they pay admissions or birthday party. They sign in.

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So that's really.

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Key but here you do that.

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And this comes.

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With the gates, that's also our security gate. So wait you take a look and you need to check it out. It'll be on.

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Other ways too, there's little ones that you can put on each side.

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Of the door so that you break.

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The the infrared.

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And it counts their lips cheaper version counter.

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This is what we need as.

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A house outside the multi-purpose room towards the that's.

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Okay, does anybody have any questions how's it comin? How does the library.

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Well, this one was created for electronic resources and since we provide the resources for getting your tech, that's what I know things. That's it that they use the one in San, Antonio, they're, the biggest contributor of electronic resources. What.

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um Know that we have to spend at least $10,000 and that's.

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On a Content, in other words, books and things like that, and that's pretty easy for us.

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And then you choose your, we have a guess. We had a. We have a membership speed that we paid at the beginning.

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Have to go before council from the MOU.

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Little more fella, that's the minimum. Every year per year it is been.

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Really provides.

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And it's in its fifth year was the first year that the state libraries that you can count on as part of your collection, the other people every.

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Do we have enough? The standard is one book per capita and we've never gone below that, but.

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We would like to be no way.

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First and most that that sweater and I know reported until you take bow.

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Take all the data everybody coming in all our.

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And when a missile is it usually sometime after April 30th they're, always in a really good place when they should I guess ranking so to speak?.

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For a library airside we're in there, we.

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Don't we county.

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We we have it, we wanted to probably the end of the year, we're.

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Getting some sort of a for next fiscal year and half of this one. We should have the ability to count Wi-Fi connections so.

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Are not available, yes, I! Think they're, fair role is just to put a zero. If you don't know.

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Are it's hard to tell them this thing that there's two radio buttons on important teachings, that you don't count it or you don't have weights at.

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All don't like one of them totally obvious and we investigated in the past some sort of solution to counter it was always very expensive.

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With our yet yeah with our a.

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Funding we did manage to get the wireless access points everybody on with this program that can you can login to fight that. Somehow, please.

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Okay, anybody else's and.

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This sends rokform so that that means that the.

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More information because it is okay, anybody are you still reviewing once we say.

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Make a home anymore, yeah and working okay.

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At this time, but we need an approval for this. Yes, okay, so why your emulsion, but to approve this document to be submitted at the 2018 Texas Public Library, and your report on behalf of the library is and.

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Any in these instructions, okay, all those in favor- those are folks.

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Many people are against the we've, ended research very encouraged by snapless. Yes,.

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The next step and.

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In your packet, you have the checklist of all other libraries.

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Beginning with the one for the main library, the good news is, we are moving forward with the signage we've.

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Already entered.

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Clear requisitions we're just waiting on the field.

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I'm, assuming that throne looked at that last mean that I wasn't here right. Yes,.

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Any better proves, with a little correction, yellow.

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The coloring on some of.

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The letters who could.

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You want to review that report.

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So you're undermining or Phoenix you have thex I mean it's still not working or.

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Knowing that each one mother, first page.

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Like lady working, oh it.

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Has been fixed but now we're looking at replacing the the lines in the teen area. It's regular light bulbs and we're looking at entities so.

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Going to be replacing the fixtures.

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And that's up again, yeah put the light up.

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Especially if we you know when it gets darker there somewhere time.

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Librarian and laws and.

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Then annalisa what.

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I smoked her today, she's attending astronaut.

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Via the astronaut training, they went.

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To the Imaginarium.

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To fix it at one of the sites.

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Really interesting there if I people from to come down and treat.

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And there are, they have a program where they're teaching three to six year old son, three.

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To six year olds, yeah.

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They're using the same techniques that they used to it to trade, the astronaut at their level, control.

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That's amazing.

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Because we started at a very young age and that's the key to that- every.

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Year, you know.

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Our young age, they start learning, you know they want to have an interest in possibly becoming out a future. That's wrong. So.

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G, were there yes of this Luther program that doctor Abuna O'mara and coming to be that little Vegas at touching, and they offered us a free slot in that class. So annalisa is attending and they're going to be visiting the library on from yeah.

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Well, they were today imaginary room today and again they were doing there that last part of their meaning. There were some amazing little activities and experiments at all.

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Okay, schnitzel tune, enjoyment, yeah, really it's really it's that week, we're gonna have access to her service as well, so there are okay. Next, we go to recent and upcoming library, profits and services.

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Report in the checklist, thank you.

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Of course, the things we're working towards it's spring break every library's, going to have a different theme during the spring break for all for the week week is what we call it and on Thursday we're all gonna get together here and have a little festival, Perth, where the kids, where we're going to be highlighting different fandoms on.

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Thursday, a screamer of Spring Break 114, so each library took.

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A different joke ever chosen Legos on the teens, the teen board, chose Jurassic, Park passage chose fortnight smash chose spring you're, saying I, know some people, but.

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It's what Socrates would say: oh here's, the name of 141st months mas, is.

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Oh, it's double-sided! So it's on the other side, stranger state. So each each branch chose a different fandom and they're gonna have activities.

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And exactly you recognize McHenry.

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To saw sending us French mono mosses among us here, I.

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Thought you do. You actually put all of that's miss Parton in Maui, mom, yeah,.

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Yeah, well, you have to see the show to know the significance of the wall.

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Moving yes, there was some activity.

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Success for a second here.

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In that swell Brown from the brown he's, the one who usually just the science fair workshops.

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About the program that you have the bookses, that are the series of books that are related to the space space, something about space and and face an early and.

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Is spearheaded by annalisa Pettis, Gomez and part of the grant that we got? That's where we had the ladies? They came to visit us from NASA and we have the different schools coming in she's, the one that does the collection development for that. But if you would like the list of specific books, we can pull that from the when the catalog.

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What is it called NASA.

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At your library, what's.

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Did get extended for that? It's not a lot.

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It's a lot of programming help to to allow us that beneath this year we got a little telescope and a lot of science activities.

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Okay, anybody comments about these are the.

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All the library, librarians and.

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I'm so happy that your.

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And also this are in 1:1, says: I came to one and I was the only one.

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Roxanne so mean we've had a hard time. Is.

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Now yeah trying to be what I was.

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At the felt like they had a full crowd, but here.

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Knows I was kid and it was had because it was very good she's, a very good.

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Signals with flyers with on Facebook social media. They also promote it. United Healthcare.

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It was United, yes,.

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There are programs like that that we've, okay there's nobody, okay, we're nothing, and that.

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I learned through through our meeting, not I, didn't.

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Them know you need him like in a weekly, especially Spring,.

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Break I've been there break into another one of poetry or something and I was also reveal, and then another girl came, but no.

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Something else no, because we have.

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And that one's on YouTube and.

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We have the predestination, they invited me to go through some insane. Oh my I mean it's different, it's very different. You know, and and then again, because you have so many good programs. I would like more people.

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And industry-wide adult program, not so popular children's, so.

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Glenda I mean it's.

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Rare when we have a children's program- and we don't have anybody- show us I- know that your book presentations.

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And they're always full.

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No, and- and these are just like is that the new librarians are bringing in and some just no I think we'll try it and see what what happens. The Facebook one yeah.

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It's got some interest.

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And but it's usually not not a big number right then.

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That started with the.

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Computer classes and those are limited, you can't have a big and then and those are full, so she's thinking of getting another and then the class.

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I RSVPed everything we.

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Can you wait several programs then, and.

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He was so worried, and so you know and that's it, but why.

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Did you promote it.

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Me again, I side here, that's why.

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Tweet it out, we have, we still man and put it on YouTube yeah, but if the teen programs are starting to pick up, adults are always a hard sell. Put.

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Them outside and all the libraries breaks.

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Poster size you know yoga Italian,.

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Facebook be bringing that we have that we can start doing it here. We have a bulletin.

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Board- and so many people come through the door, they can see yoga because a lot people I think would be interested in either yoga.

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It's not matching with a number of people coming in. We.

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Have some social coming in yet.

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Seeking and that's it of the road I love this this time, I'm sure you see they.

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Are clustered upstairs single sections got put it down.

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Here, where you come in or when they bring the kids or something I need I want.

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Yeah just a suggestion, because you have such good programs merci, now that now that I saw his name, you know.

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These had others, and yes,.

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We appreciate a second reason.

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For he said, suggest I love the program.

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Trying yes, there'll, be adult, since we have the new libraries that.

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Been that targets controversy well and Roxanne, and children.

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Programming their reference librarians, but they also do.

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Promotion is done by Rick break dust, all the Flyers, and he he's the one that puts it on social media is a designated person.

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Okay, so that they're at the different sites and.

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One here, Brooke is our Roxane and Alexander's.

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All writers and the main yeah.

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Roxana does computer classes in other libraries no number to help Ramona? Oh, we have it. There.

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We send the information to the Piero and.

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He sends it out to the media.

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The city of the radio have anything that's groaning on TV that they promote it.

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Would probably be an attack, that's the city's many.

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People watching that.

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Yeah I think having something of.

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It yeah, you might not say you.

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Don't want it outside, but I get the interest where people are watching.

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The circulation area, as you walk in we.

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Tell you there's yoga on, let's say, there's yoga, let's say: there's no you're, not something else. You.

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I, don't know that if they rolled it up when they use it for other purposes,.

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I think you are excellent and it's a shame that more people don't come well.

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After the fact, when we see those numbers next next month, we'll.

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To see what's happening or how we can help and.

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You know other suggestions for promoting.

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Sometimes they show up above the program, they don't promote it beforehand. They just show up for the story. The.

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Don't bend that so.

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Hard well too well, but that would be nice because they're giving your publicity anyway.

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Well, that happened with the Facebook yeah. He showed up yeah.

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It promotes you.

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That saying it doesn't matter, you speak well or badly. Just know about me just just happy in the know, so we could promote it. It it wouldn't matter. If they keep mm-hmm I mean I, think it would. They should come for it. Something good like that, so they put it yeah. What do we have? I mean I. Think you have excellent excellent should be permanent, no.

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Will expert for attendance for a broken up with Jon seniors.

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Are doing a good job, I mean I, wasn't great right, then you know say that that they are in it to shape that more people yeah. That's a bottom line. We're here to help you.

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That's me, based on the dark side and we'll see how else.

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Okay, we shall down to item members here. I mean learner, Murcia, monthlies and.

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That you have the report for January.

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And some might look very detail miss for a moment, but we keep it because we need to report it on the annual report. There's.

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Things that we keep track of just for our own purpose, like broom usage, they don't ask us for that.

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Directing attention for us yes,.

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Sir, it's I don't have it memorized I could look it up for you. It's.

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A Saint number here you have 7 7 95 2400, but that's their general. No! That's.

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The general there their attention to it.

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2550 is the general as I'm a lifer, it's a main back right there. What.

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Librarian, that's.

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Probably the main is the main desk as the as our voice.

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I, listen, I can get it for you.

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Believe 25:51, but don't quote me on that above all again.

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We're just adult audio and tail: it's.

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There upstairs and it's, but it's usually fiction or nonfiction that are further.

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Or actually CDs or the sickness, those are still popular, even.

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Though we have downloadable a lot.

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Of we get a lot of truckers and people that travel a lot.

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Make an appointment with Sam work, Sam accent she.

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Will look like her children that.

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Rocks and above all, the like rates upstairs we'll do a book a librarian to help you with your.

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Device or as I did in the book.

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I, like really a librarian librarian, so I need a book. I need to call before me arrest me. Okay,.

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Right sin is really good. Thank you.

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Before you're completely fine.

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Overdrive and though.

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Still they're still over there see you know, there's him.

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As long as you download the app it's a.

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Because it has no.

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Political unit.

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Have come down that not a lot of Sullivan sees people are still checking out books, but the.

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Electronic resources are cut yes and I said the e magazines have increase 193 percent, which is good.

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So next we go to the next dragon library, Advisory Committee member accesses.

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Do have miss bias.

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Okay, I see the.

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Attendance of the daily attendance for program, I can't become anything else, just the regular or staff reports. But if you think of anything and the letters milk, if you want to certain reporter information about something that it's no and according.

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To the attendance of the yokai and the other, and that they also may be read, might need promotional to improve I.

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Have written tell me what example.

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We can ask.

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Can we promote yeah.

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That's all you.

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Say the the children and the students and the teams.

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And yeah, okay: we should have them here, I think that's a.

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And that would we can ask him questions and he can respond to us because yeah.

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I was really you know, there's such wonderful program today.

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And I'm glad our community. Yes, maybe if the press comes and sent me.

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Why did I go to this one.

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So you have this.

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For us right and you have these in poster size, do you want make them a.

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No way 8 5 10, we have a.

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Plastic holder stick hold on a.

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Pen and mosque.

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Has the same thing so this Baskin and in an affection.

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You understand adult programming in libraries like this.

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Is there's even some.

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Libraries is it don't even bother really.

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Yes, because you don't get if.

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You're having them for numbers, that's not gonna happen. Industry-Wide adults, programs that gene programs have.

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We're just now.

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Getting them going.

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Will we keep trying, we can try.

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I mean I, don't I mean lots of people, say I. There's nothing, there's nothing to do it. Then they don't come.

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For the children, you're gonna get them I say you do you're.

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Gonna get people coming.

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Continue trying different I've seen stories that come out because the CIO promote.

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To all they have the book, you know promoting.

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The book, certainly when you bring offers that would be for adults. Yes,.

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I once the one book, the Holocaust.

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Say yes, I know I think we should promote Brett dogs. We should have more literacy, I. Think that's what we're here for okay.

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Built program, so you can see what has been working and what has done.

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We have our items for next moms data and I mostly just mentioned again, but he has other items feel free to give her a call or email her.

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If anybody have any any comments or anything else, other.

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Than the next meeting March 27th at five o'clock here.

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The February market, like this.

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So if nobody has any anything else, do I hear a motion to adjourn.

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Your journey that we have.

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Well, I just want to say that I've enjoyed coming to the beatings I've enjoyed meeting a lot of new people, so I didn't.

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Realize it was.

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I know I've been here representing for us, starting with Mayor Fenty nonsense, his first term and second chairman denominator, science, and that's yet to be called me the day after intersection. We just say thank you very much for presenting in here.